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On August 20, A. Navaln, who had lost consciousness on a plane from Siberia to Moscow and had spent almost three weeks in a coma, was released from a Berlin hospital last week where he was being treated. His doctors said that according to Navaln’s progress “it is possible that he will make a full recovery.”
“Now it is much better for him, I would say unexpectedly much better,” Leonid Volkov, head of A. Navaln’s headquarters, told German broadcaster RTL. “I think the recovery is really quicker than expected and of course that’s good news, which makes us very happy.”
Navaln, a longtime enemy of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is still being treated on an outpatient basis and under surveillance, Volkov said.
“Personally, I do not think that another attack will take place in Berlin, but we can see that its guards have a different opinion. A. Navalnas is strongly protected,” said L. Volkov.
German authorities reported that Navaln had been poisoned with powerful nerve-paralyzing substances and asked Russia to investigate the attack on its territory.
On September 2, German officials, based on the findings of the country’s military laboratory, announced that traces of poison from the group of nerve paralyzing substances “Novičiok” were detected in the body of A. Navaln. Material from the same group, according to London, poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England in 2018.
On September 7, the hospital reported that the patient had awakened from a coma, and on Tuesday it was announced that he had been discharged from the hospital but would continue his rehabilitation course.
Navalno’s comrades and foreign officials say it is Russia’s responsibility to show that the state did not order the poisoning and to conduct a proper investigation. At the time, Russia claims that Russia needs evidence from investigations in Germany and other countries.
The poisoning “had many negative consequences for the Kremlin,” Volkov said, adding that, in his opinion, the attack could not have taken place without Putin’s consent.
Navaln has said that he intends to return to Russia to continue his work.
“He understands the risk quite well, and somehow we should think about how he could continue to live in Russia,” Volkov told RTL. “It won’t be that easy and a lot of things will change to reduce the chances of a second attack.”
The Kremlin said Wednesday that Navaln could return to Russia unimpeded.
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